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🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Clothing and Jewellery of the Inhabitants of Abu Dhabi.' 🏺 Explores traditional dress and adornment, highlighting lifestyle, environment, trade, and craftsmanship among Abu Dhabi’s inhabitants. 🔗 bit.ly/4qYLlFA #Lit #Ethnography
Clothing and Jewellery of the Inhabitants of Abu Dhabi
This translation from Arabic of Clothing and Jewellery of the Inhabitants of Abu Dhabi: Tribes of Bani Yas Alliance (1850–1950) by Buthaina Al Qubaisi (2020) forms part of the Abu Dhabi’s Fashion Ecosystem report (2024) and is related to research on sustainability, heritage, and biophilic business.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
kentarchives.bsky.social
Today we’d like to wish Maidstone Museum a very happy 168th birthday!

Just a stone’s throw from Kent Archives, the museum was founded in 1858 and holds a diverse collection of over 600,000 artefacts — from Japanese decorative art and Ancient Egypt to ethnography and local history 🏺📿

☟ See H/U18/44
Shown here is an undated [late 19th century] albumen print photograph showing Maidstone Museum from Brenchley Gardens. It was published by Frederick Bunyard, a bookseller and stationer in Maidstone [ref. H/U18/44] A handwritten inscription on the verso of the mount reads: 'Maidstone: The Museum is a curious ancient building upon the site of the Manor house of Chillington and associated with the name of Sir John Lord Cobham as early as 1343. The building itself is a curiosity. The collections are good in ancient remains, geology, specimens of extinct animals, and general natural history. The room set apart for the Library is large and commodious and well stocked with books which though neither old nor rare are good and some of them very valuable. Open to all, admission free. God keep all Dwelling in this place in Meat and Wealth with Truth and Grace Amen. J. C. Inscription in the interior of the Great Hall.'
January 20, 2026 at 2:33 PM
drspacejunk.bsky.social
46. Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space
🏺 #TabClosed2026
Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space
library.oapen.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
barpublishing.bsky.social
📣New Book Announcement 📣

Richard Ahlstrom's Ladders and Axes of the American Southwest’s Pueblo Region, 400–1900 CE brings together evidence from artifacts, architecture, dendrochronology, historical documents, and ethnography to detail the histories of the ladders and axes from the Pueblo people.🏺
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
mu-peter.bsky.social
Universality and diversity in human song 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Analysis of the ethnography corpus shows that music appears in every society observed; that variation in song events is well characterized by three dimensions (formality, arousal, religiosity)
Studying world music systematically.
July 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
sapinuwa.bsky.social
A similar "family photo", in Çorum Museum's inventory, is now in display in Ethnography Museum's motherhood exhibition.🏺
A small figurine like a moulded lead sheet, with a man a woman and a child in between Label: FIGURINE Middle Bronze Age (Assyrian Trading Colonies) Lead Çorum Museum Directorate Inventory No: A-2867
May 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
sapinuwa.bsky.social
The figurines below except the one in the 2nd photo are on display for the first time, in Ethnography Museum's current exhibition. See alt texts for the labels.🏺
A human head and a long neck on a stool shaped four-legged base. She is holding a baby in her arms. Label: FIGURINE Late Bronze Age (1500 BC) Terracotta Yalvaç Museum Directorate Inventory No: 1774 (Α.) Display for the first time A headless, fat looking woman's headless bust. She crouched her hands under her big breasts. Label: MOTHER GODDESS STATUETTE Neolithic Period Terracotta Mardin Museum Directorate Inventory No: 10097 A roughly outlined standing woman figurine Label: HUMAN FIGURINE Iron Age Terracotta Şanlıurfa Museum Directorate Inventory No: 9588 Displayed for the first time A woman bust with braided long hairs, protruding almond shaped eyelids, a big nose with nostril details, and a tiny slit as a mouth. Her breasts are shown and have little pits at the center. Label: FIGURINE PIECE Bronze Age Terracotta Şanlıurfa Museum Directorate Inventory No: 10649 Displayed for the first time
May 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
sapinuwa.bsky.social
Another beauty in Ankara Ethnography Museum's motherhood exhibition 🏺
A terracotta Kybele with a long loose dress, sitting on a throne, extended her right arm to the back of a lion by her right side, loosely holding a bunch of her hair with that arm. Label:KYBELE FIGURINE Roman, 27 BC-395 AD Terracotta Kastamonu Archaeological Museum Directorate Inventory No: 100
May 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
sapinuwa.bsky.social
This lovely figurine is on loan in Ankara Ethnography Museum for a special exhibition themed "motherhood". It's a small exhibition, but with very very very lovely mother, child and pregnant women figurines which blew my mind today.
I'll share them one by one, later.😍🏺
A collection of 9 women figurines dating from Neolithic to Chalcolithic Nine women figurines from Iron Age to Classical Age Roman and Hellenistic women figurines A woman on an octagonal star shaped Seljuk tile
May 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
sapinuwa.bsky.social
Some more clearer photos of this wonderful Leto of Antalya Archaeology Museum. I've been to there, pitying for long to have skipped seeing this, today in Ankara Ethnography Museum I suddenly noticed it- what a beautiful surprise.😍🏺
Any comments about the silicone adhesive?🫣
A 20 cm ivory figurine. A woman with a polos headgear, a long dress, and an apron on her waist is holding the hand of a standing girl with a long dress on her right side and supporting a naked boy sitting on her left shoulder. The boy's head is broken. The same figurine, view from right side Label STATUETTE (TRIPLE GROUP: LETO-APOLLON-ARTEMIS) Late 7th-early 6th century BC Ivory Antalya Museum Directorate Inventory No: 2.21.87
May 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
soniaz.bsky.social
Feeling very annoyed with past me!
Why did I not write down the reference I used properly? How on earth am I going to refind the ethnography from the Nile Valley written by Wood in 1868? #academicsky
Anyone from 🏺 or anthropology know a good way of searching for it? It mentions lip & nose studs.
February 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
magivanga.com
What day is today? It's the World Anthropology Day 😍 And that means an opportunity comes again to enrich you with another salient quote from Marshall Sahlins, a recently deceased pillar of our discipline, who during his life created a school of social anthropology of his own!

#edusky #academicsky 🏺
Marshall Sahlins, Two or Three Things that I Know about Culture, 1999, p. 411: "In regard to similitude, ethnography has always known that cultures were never as bounded, self-contained and self-sustaining as postmodernism pretends that modernism pretends. No culture is sui generis, no people the sole or even the principal author of their own existence. The a priori conceit that authenticity means self-fashioning and is lost by reliance on others seems only a legacy of bourgeois self-consciousness. Indeed, this self-centred determination of authenticity is contrary to the normal human social condition. Most peoples find critical means of their own reproduction in beings and powers existing beyond their normal borders and their customary controls. Accordingly, the prestigious acts of acquiring foreign powers are domestic social values - very commonly, of manhood. From heroic journeys into these culturally transcendent realms, men (usually men) returned with trophies of war or the chase, with commodities gained in raid or trade, with visions, songs, dances, names, amulets, spirits and cures, things familiar or novel that could be consumed, sacrificed, exchanged or otherwise used to renew and enrich the indigenous form of life."
February 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
drspacejunk.bsky.social
Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: an important new book with contributions from the leading ethnographers and anthropologists of space. 🧪🏺
Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space
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January 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
clusterroots.bsky.social
Volume 58 of the Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift #EAZ is now available online including research on the role of women working in #archaeology, explorations of the common ground between archaeology and #ethnography, and reflections on the future directions of #ethnoarchaeology.
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Vol. 58 (2024) | EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift
EAZ, EAZ journal, Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift, Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift, EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift
www.eaz-journal.org
January 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
jeremyfarr.bsky.social
Working on a multispecies ethnography project 🏺
January 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
helsinkiupress.bsky.social
Out now!

'Hard Work' by @tutam.bsky.social explores human-environmental relations, value production, and state formation in the context of large-scale natural resource extraction in #PapuaNewGuinea.

The book is available in #openaccess at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP-29

#anthropology #ethnography🏺
December 23, 2024 at 11:00 AM
magivanga.com
Another Monday calls for another #MondayQuote. This time we're gonna dive into seminal work of Clifford Geertz, "The Interpretation of Cultures", to extract one very salient motto!

#anthropology (🏺) #ethnography #philosophy #edusky #academicsky #booksky
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, Basic Books 1973 pp. 346-346: "For the anthropologist, whose profession it is to study other cultures, the puzzle is always with him. His personal relationship to his object of study is, perhaps more than for any other scientist, inevitably problematic. Know what he thinks a savage is and you have the key to his work. You know what he thinks he himself is and, knowing what he thinks he himself is, you know in general what sort of thing he is going to say about whatever tribe he happens to be studying. All ethnography is part philosophy, and a good deal of the rest is confession."
December 16, 2024 at 10:10 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
“It just feels different” @leilaar.bsky.social’s research on digital vs analog recording, using body mapping and ethnography in development-led archaeology #eaa2024 🏺
Leila speaking in front a of a slide that says: "IT JUST FEELS DIFFERENT...' " "...that disconnect of like, it just feels different. The texture is different. It looks a little bit different. It's a way bigger barrier than I'd anticipated... ...there are things that I probably take for granted. If I know, subconsciously, that if you're holding a pencil at a certain angle or you're a this or that, it's going to do that. "
August 30, 2024 at 12:34 PM
mu-peter.bsky.social
Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Suggests EP hunting as a method of food procurement would have probably been available and attractive to Plio/Pleistocene hominins.
Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans
July 9, 2024 at 1:02 PM
kris-inwood.bsky.social
@mayrl.bsky.social, @nickhwilson.bsky.social, Matthew Mahler & Josh Pacewicz examine the growing ties between historical sociology & ethnography - a useful case study of interchange between scholarly communities.
New & open access in Social Science History!
🏺🗃📗 #sociology #histsci #STS #AcademicSky
Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case of SSHA | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case of SSHA - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 7, 2024 at 7:29 PM
mu-peter.bsky.social
Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

EP hunting as a method of food procurement would have probably been available and attractive to Plio/Pleistocene hominins.
Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans
May 14, 2024 at 3:31 PM
christinajriggs.bsky.social
This week I joined a guided tour of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Turin. It's been closed since 1984, in part because its founder was a devoted fascist. He was also part of the Museo Egizio's excavations in Egypt. #racism #museums #colonialism 🗃️📜🏺

christinariggs.com/2024/05/08/b...
Behind the curtain: visiting an anthropology museum in Turin
This week, I finally had the chance to visit a museum in Turin that I've been wanting to see for years. The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (MAET), which is part of the University of Turin, has...
christinariggs.com
May 8, 2024 at 10:02 AM
thesherdnerd.bsky.social
I love a book delivery
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#archaeology #ethnography
March 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM
kerim.one
Anthropologists: do you have a text you use in teaching that answers the question "What is an ethnography?" clearly and succinctly? #anthropology 🏺
October 30, 2023 at 11:59 PM
folsom8k.bsky.social
Day 17 of Halloween Archaeology: This one is more about history/ethnography than archaeology, but it's about how the Zuni treated witches and their praise of the Salem Witch Trials. 🏺
October 17, 2023 at 3:28 PM